Rear lantern for motor vehicles



Oct. 22, 1929. E. H. COQUILLE- 1,732,673

REAR LANTERN FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Filed Jan 25, 1928 lilldTLE HENRI CUQ'UJULLE, T PARIS, FRANCE REAR ELM F015? MOTUT: VllGlLlEl'd application filed January 25, 1928, herial No. MQAM, and.

The present invention relates to a rear lantern device for motor vehicles, which is chiefly oi. use when the vehicle is provided with a tool box, or the like, at the back.

The said lantern device comprises a lantern which is principally characterized in that it is mounted on the rear panel of the box, in such manner as to serve for lighting the interior of the box, while serving as a'rear Ian 1 tern and optionally as a side light for the lighting of the regulation number plate.

According to another characteristic oil the invention, the body of the lantern may be formed by the pressing process in the panel itself.

lln the appended drawings given by way closed position.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the tool box and the lantern, with the box in the open position.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section of: the tool box and the lantern.

Figure d is a perspective view of a box oil a different form which is provided with the said lantern.

lln the constructional'lorm shown in Figs. the l, 2 and 3, the main body 1 of the lantern is formed by pressing the panel 201i the tool box, said'panel being secured to the cover 3. The whole device can be raised as shown in Fig. 2, by pivotation on the horizontal axis a. $5 The said lantern carries an electric lamp 5. The main body 2 of the lantern is laterally apertured at 6 for lighting the regulation plate 7. For this purpose the lantern is preferably termed by pressing into the side of the panel, thus leaving the middle ot the panel tree for the mounting of the said regulation plate.

The rear side oil the lantern is open and is provided with a transparent red plate 8 t5 tor the rear light. The front part 9 remains entirely open, thus aflording access to the lamp and also lighting the interior of the tool box, when the panel 2 is raised (Fig. 2). lit is preferable to employ a vertical plate till l0, secured to the base, to reinforce the rear in France September as, rear.

panel, so that the tools in the box will not break the lamp.

ln the present example, the rear panel of the box is secured to the cover and is raised with the latter, but it is obvious that the said lantern may be placed upon boxes of difi'erent construction} As shown in the modification Fig. 4, it maybe placed at 12 on one oi the two side pieces 11 forming the rear panel and pivoting on vertical hinges. lit may turther be mounted on the stationary rear panel, and herein the box cover is limited to the top face. v

@bviously, the invention is not limited to the constructional details herein described and represented, which are given by way of example. ln this manner the main body of the lantern need not be formed by the pressing process, but it may be separately secured to the panel by any suitable means such as rivets, bolts and nuts, soldering, or the like lln this case, the panel should be apertured so as to form the opening 9, which in the preceding example is termed by the pressing process itself.

Having now described my invention what ll claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A combined rear lantern and rear box arrangement for motor vehicles comprising a rear box having an aperture through a wall thereof and a rear lantern secured to said till well, said lantern being adapted to provide tor the rear signal of the vehicle and to illuminate the interior of said box through said aperture.

2. A. combined rear lantern and rear box arrangement for motor vehicles comprising a rear box having an aperture through a wall thereof, a rear lantern secured to said wall, .and adapted to illuminate the interior of said box through said aperture, a license plate carried by said box adjacent said lantern, and openings in the body of said lantern, where by the latter is adapted to provide for the rear signal of the vehicle and to illuminate said license late.

3. A com ined rear lantern and rear box. arrangement for motor vehicles comprisin a rear box having an aperture through a wall thereof, a rear lantern secured to said wall, the body of said lantern being made of a stamped recess in said Wall and said lantern being adapted to provide for the rear signal of the vehicle and to illuminate the interior of said box through said aperture.

4. A combined rear lantern and rear box arrangement for motor vehicles comprising a rear. box, a hinged cover for said box having an aperture therein directed towards the rear of the vehicle, a rear lantern secured to said cover and registering with said aperture, said lantern being adapted to provide for the rear signal of the vehicle and to illuminate the interior of said box through said aperture.

5. A combined rear lantern and rear box arrangement for motor vehicles comprising a near box, a hinged cover for said box, a lantern secured on the rear panel of said cover and provided with an aperture directed towards the rear of the vehicle to provide for the rear signal of the vehicle, and with an aperture directed towards the interior of said box, so as to illuminate the same.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to thisspecification.

EMILE HENRI COQUILLE. 

